RESOLVE: Long photo essays: Research, plan, and stay flexible

Posted June 25th, 2009 in Uncategorized by Sean Gallagher

resolve As mentioned in an earlier post, I have been asked to be a guest contributor on the Livebooks blog, RESOLVE. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be describing the processes and working practices that I employed whilst covering my Pulitzer-sponsored project on the subject of China’s Growing Sands. If you missed the first post on finding a story and looking for funding, please visit it here. My second post has just gone up on RESOLVE and covers the subject of research and planning. To see how it looked on RESOLVE, click here. Below is the reproduced article.

Before I was awarded the grant from Pulitzer, I had to have it clear in my mind what I wanted to achieve with this project and how exactly I wanted to achieve it. I had already been working on the subject of desertification on-and-off for over a year, so I already had a good idea of most of the main issues.

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